Monthly Archives: September 2009

New Job

I’m now working at VMWare. I’m half way in the process of moving to San Francisco and should be up in the SoMa area full-time by next week.

Yosemite – August 2009

I go to Yosemite a few times a year because its possibly the best hiking in California. Drew and Jordan went with me and took some amazing photos. There was a large forest fire at the time which made hiking Half Dome impossible due to smoke inhalation.
Regardless, they got some really good photos [...]

My take on Tornado and "modern" web servers

I am happy to see Facebook release Tornado, their Python based web-server that was developed to run the FriendFeed service. They have done their best to optimize the stack within the Python process. However, I’m inclined to believe that it is more of the same problem from which many HTTP toolkits suffer.
Since Tornado [...]

Connecting people and Mentoring

Is there anything out there to help connect newer programmers with experienced programmers in GNOME or Linux in general? A big-brother/big-sister type thing. It’s quite rewarding to both those learning and those with experience to help each other when they have common goals and passions. It allows for broader dissemination of information, [...]